Johann August Nauck (18 September 1822 – 3 August 1892) was a German classical scholar and

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. His chief work was the ''Tragicorum Graecorum Fragmenta'' (''TrGF'').

Biography

Nauck was born at Auerstedt in present-day

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. He studied at the

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as a student of Gottfried Bernhardy and Moritz Hermann Eduard Meier. In 1853 he became an adjunct under

August Meineke Johann Albrecht Friedrich August Meineke (also ''Augustus Meineke''; ; 8 December 179012 December 1870), Germany, German classical philology, classical scholar, was born at Soest, Germany, Soest in the Duchy of Westphalia. He was father-in-law to ...

at the Joachimsthal Gymnasium in

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. After a brief stint as an educator at the ''Grauen Kloster'' (1858), he relocated to

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, where in 1869, he was appointed professor of

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at the historical-philological institute. Nauck was one of the most distinguished textual critics of his day,Nauck, August
@ NDB/ADB Deutsche Biographie although, like PH Peerlkamp, he was fond of altering a text in accordance with what he thought the author must, or ought to, have written. Nauck was elected a foreign member of the

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in 1885.

Published works

The most important of his writings and translations, all of which deal with Greek language and

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(especially the tragedians) are as follows: * Fragments of

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(1848). * ''Euripidis Tragoediae superstites et deperditarum fragmenta; ex recensione Augusti Nauckii'', (1854). (

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, tragedies and fragments) * ''Tragicorum Graecorum Fragmenta'' (1856, last edition, 1983), His chief work — it was intended as a counterpart to Meineke's "comedy fragments", (). * Revised edition of Schneidewin's annotated

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(1856, etc.) * Porphyrius of Tyre (1860, 2nd ed., 1886); "''Porphyrii philosophi Platonici opuscula selecta''". * ''Lexikon Vindobonense'' (1867). * texts of

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, ''

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'' (1874) and ''

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'' (1877–1879); published as "''Homerica carmina''" (volume I. Ilias; volume II. Odyssea).WorldCat Title
Homerica carmina *

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, ''De Vita Pythagorica'' (1884).

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*
Tragicorum graecorum fragmenta
' recensuit Augustus Nauck, Lipsiae sumptibus et typis B. G. Teubneri, 1856. **
Tragicorum graecorum fragmenta
' recensuit Augustus Nauck, editio secunda, Lipsiae in aedibus B. G. Teubneri, 1889.

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